Dennis de Tray

Dennis de Tray is the Center for Global Development’s Vice President for Special Initiatives. He joined CGD in February, 2006 after a 23 year career at the World Bank. In his last assignment for the World Bank he was Country Director for the five Central Asian republics, stationed in Almaty, Kazakhstan (2001-2006). Previously, he served as IMF senior representative for Vietnam in Hanoi (1999-2001) and as the World Bank’s Director, Resident Staff and then Country Director in Jakarta, Indonesia (1994-1999). From 1971-1983, Dr. de Tray served as a researcher at the RAND Corporation. During a two-year leave-of-absence from RAND at the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics in Islamabad, he discovered his real calling: understanding and promoting economic development in low income countries. In 1983 he left RAND to join the World Bank as chief of its Living Standards Measurement program. The survey methodology developed under Dennis’s guidance remains the standard for poverty measurement in the World Bank and in a number of other international organizations. Dr. de Tray holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago.
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